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First, go read brightfame's nu!Trek series, Cygnus Beta. (I don't know how to do the link, sorry! Just, she's on DreamWidth. brightfame. Go.) It's a series of stories about Vulcans on a new colony, and the other people on that colony, and has lots of layers and characters and a slowly evolving maybe-romance and definite friendship, and is just WONDERFUL.

Then, if you are so inclined, come back and read this, which is written for brightfame, with her prompt, "golden," in thanks for her delightful tale. Thanks to Rhi (on DW, she's Gryphonrhi on LJ) for help with associations and facts about "gold").


Golden


The mind is a golden vein
seamed in crumbling rock (also known as rotting quartz).

The golden mean becomes a kindness
as she learns to sip the echo of his smiles.

That Vulcan died,
that her heart was shorn of innocence by an conscienceless man,
that she tempts him to laughter
and other ruin,
that they ache,
that they find their way, slowly,
delicately, respectfully --
passion's slow but inexorable burn...

It's not the sun that blinds her,
nor the golden rays of impossibility
in an infinitely permutable and permissive landscape.

Light diffuses through suspended sand.
They dance, exquisitely slowly, an elegant
sarabande.
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posted by [personal profile] brightfame at 02:42am on 23/06/2009
Oooh, thank you! I'm so thrilled at this poem. I think I've figured out how to blend it into a fic ... just give me a few more days to be sure. It would likely come after the one I'm writing now,
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posted by [personal profile] zvi at 04:52am on 29/06/2009
I'm not sure which kind of link you couldn't make.

Linking to brightfame's dreamwidth is <user name="brightfame"> which gets you [personal profile] brightfame.

Linking to the Cygnus beta series is <a href="http://brightfame.dreamwidth.org/tag/cygnus+beta">Cygnus Beta</a> which gets you Cygnus Beta.

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